Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.Thomas Bulfinch
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua -
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
V. S. Naipaul -
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Edmund White -
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis -
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
Natasha Trethewey -
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
Orlando Bloom -
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
Dana Spiotta -
Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
Pamela Meyer -
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
A. S. Byatt -
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus -
If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
Kassie DePaiva -
I'm not driven by being understood.
Kary Mullis -
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
Sam Weller -
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
Becky Lynch
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Eavan Boland -
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde -
I've been really lucky.
Kat Dennings -
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have the greatest fans in the world. I love them.. All of them, I really do.
Michael Jackson -
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Thomas Bulfinch